skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was previously phrased in startup advice as "start with a single vertical and generalize afterwards", "don't try to boil the ocean", etc. A lot of less-experienced entrepreneurs start with wanting to conquer all markets with their new paradigm, but the truth is you first need to capture specific segments/verticals or you'll be spread too thin.

Similarly, with a software solution, you need to make it integrate into an existing stack used in the market, or else build the layers to make it something that can fit neatly into a business's processes. E.g. if there's already an established market for engines or frameworks, then a business can use your conforming engine almost plug-and-play. Otherwise you have to build the app and UI layers on top to make it end-user-facing.

Once you've achieved some success in a vertical or layer (e.g. appointment bookings for salons), you can abstract the core solution/framework and start applying it to other verticals or build adapter layers to start attacking other layers (e.g. appointment bookings for everything).
I'll bite because I find this compelling: if Apple is trying to build momentum for its Private Cloud Compute (https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/), it makes sense to try and get ahead of anything that could enable a competitor to build something similar. I'd think OpenAI getting billions shoveled their way in future investment just to throw darts at building any kind of moat would qualify, because for all Apple knows, OpenAI might eat their Private Cloud Compute lunch.

Granted I'm not sure there's much of anything to substantiate this, but I imagine Apple would know better from competitive intel.

(I feel a bit bad that my mind also immediately connects "Gruber" to "Apple" in less-than-savory ways, but alas, that's the reputation he built for himself.)
official link: https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/1219_01.html

still no photos, but they say more info will come during CES
I feel like this will be short lived. Reddit has such incredibly toxic models for moderation, that it becomes unusable to anyone who doesn’t fit its mods or admins desired ideologies. If you post in some subreddits, others will ban you automatically. If you get downvoted as a new member of a subreddit, they may silently shadowban you for having a low score. Want to discuss some topic that is controversial like the lab leak theory? Prepare to be banned across the entire site. It’s a massive echo chamber as a result, and it can get tiresome for anyone who doesn’t fit the mold exactly, even if they mostly agree with it.

I find it’s best used like stack overflow - search it through your favorite search engine for answers, but otherwise steer clear and avoid participating. That eventually leads to the site dying though. The ads won’t be seen by real users. And AI data licensing will fall in value as new user driven content disappears.
Perplexity Acquires Carbon AI
Before you replace, can I show you how the LLM integration works on HackerRank?
I agree that competitors have caught up now, but there was a time when Google Translate and Google Maps (for example) were the only game in town. I tried most competitors, and they were all nearly useless in comparison.
I enjoy the explosion of tools. Only time will tell which ones stand the test of time. But this is my day job so I never get tired of new tools but I can see how non-industry folks can find it overwhelming
What do other HNers make out of this? Would you use this? Responsible for a legaltech startup here.
Yes, one should always be wary of the false dichotomy.
Monopolies in US? Which bad product you are forced to buy because there's no competition at all?
> The exponential gains would come from increasing penetration into existing labor forces and industrial applications

Only if they are much cheaper than the equivalent work done by humans, but likely the first AGI will be way more expensive than humans.
The addon you're referring to is already available: https://github.com/rlguy/Blender-FLIP-Fluids/wiki/Mixbox-Ins...

It works as a kind of experimental extension supplied with the paid FLIP Fluids addon. Note that the fluid solver built into Blender is also an implementation of FLIP, but "FLIP Fluids" is a separate product. I've played with fluid simulation in Blender quite a bit. The bundled FLIP is very limited, FLIP Fluids is great, and the color mixing is amazing!
Just it wasn't led by a lesbian (just saying because it seems to make the difference for Musk)
It's behind a paywall, but the gist of it is that so many bad power supplies are being connected to the grid that the sine waves are getting distorted. It's based on this research from Whisker Labs[1].

Better power supplies can help with the distortion, but it really shouldn't matter much, except in extreme cases where things are at 99% of their limits in the power grid, on a hot day.

By the way, you can learn interesting things from analysis of the power grid. Long ago I remember a Slashdot comment about using it with covertly gathered recordings estimate the effective yield of nuclear enrichment operations in the middle east. I've been trying to find that thread but Google isn't what it used to be

[1] https://www.whiskerlabs.com/analysis-of-total-harmonic-disto...
It is really unbelievable how much money companies will spend to avoid talking to and thoroughly understanding their users. OpenAI could probably learn a lot from interviewing 200 random people every 6 months and seeing what they use and why, but my guess is they would consider that frivolous.
Several years ago, I started getting mass amounts of signups to one of my gmail accounts by the same person (thanks to some of these, I found out her first and last name). Some months after it started, I realized she also had the twitter account with that same name. I don't think she knew gmail and twitter were different things.
Sort of. They had to replace the roof, and they didn't reinstall them.

(they were also not "solar panels" it was solar water heating and it was sorta useful but mostly symbolic).
As sibling mentioned thats not the model. From what Ive seen australia lags US access on the order of 6months to a few years for most things. Effectively theres an additional review period where TGA reviews foreign research and approval before (generally) allowing and entering it to the ARTG and PBS with the relevant prescribing advice. Once its on the MBS/PBS the patient gets access through their prescriber and/or chemist.

The PBS listed medications are essentially price capped copays at the point of sale, with the bulk of the cost covered directly by the government (who negotiates prices with the manufacturer, and fronts the pharmacist distribution costs). Its the same pfizer etc patent protected medication, unless theres a generic version which chemist & prescriber can vend with patient consent.
The exact reason that I use Deno is the sandbox, it will not run if something is calling an unknown endpoint.
Per TFA, they consider 20 civilian deaths to be an acceptable collateral for one Hamas combatant. I don't know in what world this could be possibly called "trying to separate out the bad guys", but I don't live in it.
Yup, the audio was so bad that it started to hurt my ears and had to stop. Would love to watch/listen to a version with fixed audio though!
gperf or nbperf, but there are other methods also, benchmarked in my Perfect::Hash perl module.

https://github.com/rurban/Perfect-Hash?tab=readme-ov-file#be...
Very interesting step. I wonder what will become the standard for color 3d printing. Mixing 3 base colors in a mixing chamber probably will waste a lot of purge filament.
Amazon functions as a marketplace dynamic, which is defensible if done right, as they have shown.

OpenAI right now some novel combination of a worker bee and queryable encyclopedia. If they are trying to make a marketplace argument for this, it would be based on their data sources, which may have a similar sort of first-mover advantage as a marketplace as they get closed off and become more expensive (see eg reddit api twitter api changes), except that much of those data age out, in a way that sellers and buyers in a marketplace do not.

The other big difference with a marketplace is constrained attention on the sell/fulfillment side. Data brokers do not have this constraint — data is easier to self-distribute and infinitely replicable.
agree with what you wrote but the problem becomes more complicated when API access becomes expensive to provide. basically it’s easy to provide something for free when no one is using it and no one is making any money. but when things start picking up then the real problems arise.
Kenya's celebrated coffee under threat as farmers hit by climate change
Glass is highly recyclable. Some old plastic juul pod with burnt residue all over the atomizer I'd guess not.
Dump $1 trillion into Kaiser and push it out to all 50 states. I have it in Bay Area and it’s mostly been great for me. It’s not the best but it also gets 90% of things right.
We had one before the other.

I remember the spikes in these kinds of editorials starting somewhere in early 10s.
I keep turning my Google Sheets into phone-friendly webapps
While this is slightly more catered towards a technical audience, I think articles on relatable subjects like this one could prove valuable in getting non-technical people to understand the limitations of LLMs, or what companies are calling "AI" these days. A version of this article that is more focused on real-world examples, showing exactly how the models can make mistakes and present the wrong or incomplete information with less technical focus would probably better cater to a non-technical audience.
We had basically the same experience with Kaiser Permanente in the SF Bay Area.

Currently, there’s a doctor shortage problem (supposedly, they can’t hire, or there aren’t enough positions, depending on who you ask), which has caused issues with the quality of care (according to the doctors that went on strike over this, and personal experience).

It’s unclear what the root cause or solution is.

Anyway, you can get the experience you described, and it’s great until you hit an understaffed corner case health problem.
I recall seeing a similar idea to this on a 3D printer that used sheets of paper for the layers. It would (workflow from memory) print with high saturation on to a stack of paper then drag them in to an aligned stack while cutting the layers out using a drag knife and gluing them. I wish I could recall who made the thing, but it was quite impressive. Main target use case was architectural work.
Apple probably wouldn't allow such an app in their walled garden?
Why do you ask?

Specifically, this is one stupid question and one irrelevant question.
Why do you ask either the stupid question or the irrelevant question?

The stupid question is stupid in the same way as: "What color was George Washington's white horse?"

The entire presentation is nothing but a continuous stream of synopsys' of proofs of concepts. The answer to the question is nothing other than a verbatim transcript of the video.

Irrelevant question: My knowledge of a topic has no bearing on the validity of some presentation on that topic, unless I happen to be challenging or supporting the content of the presentation. It doesn't matter what I believed or knew before or after ingesting the presentation.
Reviving Retro Computing: Running Modern LLMs on Amiga, Atari ST and Classic Mac
hard to say how much of this will actually translate into policy. The last revision to the policy helped close out loopholes, may be more to come?
Unlikely that the H1B is going away any time soon. Domestic workers will need to adapt and grind, very hard indeed in this job market.
Definitely need more bridges between domenstic and immigrant workers to avoid online vitriol spilling IRL.
I remember this, the coolest part was that the feedstock was just glue, inkjet cartridges and A4 printer paper
I will not lose any sleep over failing to convince you. The information is there for all to see, which was my original intent. You can continue to use Openoffice to your heart's content; it makes no difference to me.

As for 'contradicting myself,' I did not. Unfixed security flaws exist in the code base, the project used to address them, and now no longer does. I also urge onlookers to investigate how Openoffice handles CVEs: the Apache foundation is a CVE Numbering Authority, they only issue CVEs after a release contains fixes, and they falsely claim to be the only CNA who can issue CVEs for Apache software projects. So, for the rest of the world, you don't get to find out about the flaws until the project gets around to fixing them, which is a wait increasing by the day.
This was the one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcor_Technologies_Ltd
Seems they went out of business.

Video here https://youtu.be/2DRJ2oUK4-E
Because if the idea they're proving is that basic chemistry does what textbooks say basic chemistry should do I'm not sure I understand the impact of the "POC" here. That's all; I'm not baiting, I'm genuinely wondering what I'm missing.
But they are expected to make profits in the future, that is what investments into for-profits are for.
The Propeller is a good bridge into retro in my view.

The device offers great retro level video just about any way you want it, except digital. VGA, NTSC, PAL, s-video, others... You can drive TTL displays, such as a CGA, EGA, Monochrome. And on composite, you can crank horizontal resolution way up to do, 80bcolumn plus text.

People have made various Basic dialects, there is a quite capable Forth, and of course SPIN is fun and easy. Feels retro to me.

One has to go looking, but there are a lot of games too.
> Access to cost effective censorship free broadband

No internet access will be censorship free.

Hacker News isn't censorship free. People are down voted, flagged, rate limited, and banned.

And Musk is A-Okay with censorship. He wrote an article for China's Cyberspace Administration:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/13/23304250/elon-musk-pitch-...

Musk censors himself. He has to. Otherwise he'd look worse than he already does:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2024/08/08/elon-mu...

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/elon-musk-deletes-post...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-deletes-post-slammin...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-deletes-tweet-wit...
I know people who are grown adults who still buy the disposable vapes. You save zero money of course since they charge more than the given amount when you don't have to get the battery. I have no clue why they do it. I think part of it is psychological, like "oh I don't use the vape much I won't get myself an actual battery," then three beers in they are running across the street to the smoke shop for a disposable.
I buy disposable vapes because I convince myself it’s my last one. Once it runs out I’ll quit.

Buying a rig is accepting defeat.

Except this vape ran out faster than I expected. I have a big week at work coming up and I can’t afford the dip in energy level and productivity that comes with withdrawal. I’ll buy one more just this once and then I’ll quit for sure.

Amazing the hoops my mind jumps through for an addictive molecule.
Quantum Computing Method May Make Simulating Materials More Practical
From all evidence, this is probably pretty accessible for the blind. Thanks
He replied already above :)
There are better options than airbnb if money is the concern, though - it just seems really dumb. Airbnb is like eating out at restaurants instead of buying from the grocery store and preparing your own food. There's subletting, crashing at friend/relative, sleeping in the car, etc. Personally, I'd choose van life over blowing all my money on over priced accommodation.
There are consumer grade systems that will safely electrolyze.[0] Though I do love a good King of the Hill episode every once in a while.

[0] https://www.forceofnatureclean.com/
I failed to respond simply because I didn't realize you were making that point. To me, the existence of large players in a decentralized system is not something in need of addressing or fixing; IMO, decentralization is not the right tool to achieve egalitarianism - but it's a great way to avoid a monoculture.

The fediverse, like email and most other human systems that benefit from economies of scale will have a Pareto distribution with very large free providers > ISP / work and community instances > individual instances. Banking is decentralized and interoperable, this doesn't prevent banking giants from existing the world over - I expect them to exist, I also am in favor of smaller regional and local banks and credit unions.
This is similar to the RizeOne, I have one. Tjmhe company went under but they're still supported by some suppliers.

https://www.dynamism.com/rize/rize-one.html?srsltid=AfmBOooo...
Thanks for the numbers. I think it's still possible to create gists with .ipynb Jupyter notebooks which have can have latex math and code with test assertions; symbolic algebra with sympy, astropy, GIZMO-public, spiceypy

> and some way to attach them

Because of my love for old kitchens on the Moon.

(The cost then to put all of that into orbit, in today's dollars)

So, orbitally refuelling Starship(s) would be less efficient than 33 of the cited capability all at once.

This list is pretty short:

Template:Engine_thrust_to_weight_table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Engine_thrust_to_weig...

What about solar; could any solar-powered thrusters - given an unlimited amount of time - shove the ISS into a dangerous orbit towards the moon instead of the ocean?

> and some way to attach them

There's a laser welding in space spec and grants FWIU.

Can any space program do robotic spacecraft hull repair in orbit, like R2D2? With laser welding?

Or do we need to find more people like Col. McBride in brad pitt space movie, more astronauts?
Quantum RNG
A high-performance quantum-inspired random number generator that leverages quantum mechanical principles in classical computing environments. This library simulates quantum phenomena on classical hardware to generate high-quality random numbers with proven entropy characteristics.
Likewise here. Even tried the audio only link. It is also choppy, can the organizer upload a better version? It is quite difficult the hear what he is saying sometimes.
They were run as a very unprofitable publicly traded company for a very long time — investor, VC, parent probably just went for some rough metonymy.
> A very very small minority work there and think the company is evil.

I think that for every true believer in the "mission" of the company, there are two or three employees who choose not to closely scrutinize the ethics of the company's actions, because they are paid extraordinarily well.

I don't think my company is evil per se, but I do think that if we were optimizing for the good of humanity, rather than profit, our products would look rather different.
Jesus Christ, dude.
It find it amusing that when dress codes go unchanged for an extended period of time, they become requirements for period costumes. I don't know anyone my generation that would wear a collared shirt tucked into shorts, unless they were cosplaying as an 80's tourist dad, but at country clubs it's pretty common, to meet dress codes.
The premise of this article sounds an awful lot like a solution desperately searching for a problem.

The scenario used to drive this idea is a slippery slope fallacy that tests can take over an hour to run after years. That's rather dubious, but still this leaves out the fact that tests can be run in parallel. In fact, that is also a necessary condition of selective testing. So why bother with introducing with yet more complexity?

To make matters worse if your project grows so large that your hypothetical tests take over an hour to run, it sounds like the project would already be broken down into modules. That, alone, already allows tests to only run if a specific part of the project run.

So it's clear that test run time is not a problem that justifies throwing complexity to solve it. Excluding the test runtime argument, is there anything at all that justifies this?
vimwiki!
You're right. Move the ball so it's half-immersed, wait for the water to settle, and then cause a single ripple. The ripple will propagate past the ball, coming out the other side with no diffraction.

Still very, very cool.
That's not going to get rid of trash, its just going to remove more money from people's wallets as the tax gets passed to them. Might even open up a black market like we see with nyc cigarette taxes. Maybe if the tax went to local street cleanup initiatives or something it might do a sliver of good, but that's just one sort of litter out of the rest.
It makes intuitive sense: all other things being equal, inhaling combustion products is worse than not inhaling combustion products. Thus, nicotine with combustion products is worse than nicotine without combustion products. We would need sufficient evidence to veer away from this data.
He's in his 30s
If Mexico was constantly threatened with an invasion from US, I would expect them to try really hard to join some kind of military alliance that could counter that, and if US were to respond to that the way Russia did, it would absolutely have been in the wrong. But this hypothetical, while amusing to consider, is not what we're dealing with, and ignoring this whole part about historical occupation and forced assimilation that ended recently enough that many people alive in Ukraine today still remember it, is extremely misleading as analogies go.

And yes, this whole bullshit about "they're not a real nation" etc was very much a thing in Russia before 2022, and before 2014 even. I should know; I grew up there. I remember reading "Эпоха мертворожденных" in 2008, and that's pretty much what Russia actually did in 2014 (except of course the whole "NATO occupation" of the non-separatist parts turned out to be imaginary). But I remember hearing similar sentiments in the 90s as a kid, as well. And since Ukrainians are well within the Russian cultural orbit, they were aware of those trends, too - and took appropriate precautions. This notion that invasion wouldn't have happened if they didn't seek NATO membership is wrong.
US wide averages for smoking are pretty useless. It varies a lot from region to region. It’s like taking the average of Europe, the continent.

Anyway, as someone from the states, I think banning disposable electronics is a great idea in general. E-cigs seem like a great place to start.
> There’s no “learn about the world” course you take when you have nothing else to do.

I've been testing https://brilliant.org/ and like it so far. Its scope is limited to STEM topics, but the thing I like about it is you can set courses to bite sized daily chunks as small as 5 minutes.
Making Steve Job's vision come true ~40 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLuerYx2IA
It’s incredibly culturally insensitive to imply not having a house is a bad thing. I live in an apartment. My King lives in a palace. I have a friend who lives in a van on purpose. Most traditional shelters don’t resemble the American ideal of a detached single family dwelling. Just say what you’re really trying to say
Can you expand on that?
Where do big enterprise orgs products fit in, eg Microsoft, Google?
What are the leading providers as you see them?
As an outsider it is bewildering. First I hear that llama_index is good, then I hear that its overcomplicating slop. What sources or resources are reliable on this? How can we develop anything that will still stand in 12 months time?
That’s probably how 80% of presentations I attended last couple years were presented. Open slide, read sentences written there, go to next slide. Not nice.
Somebody is going to write Wizard of Oz for all this and I’m for it.
Hey. Remember that time a bunch of economists and politicians got together and decided we'd brick domestic manufacturing and switch to a service economy? Well this is what a service economy looks like.
Not to mention all the spin doctors they need to conjure up a regulatory moat in absence of a technical one.